reflections on filming

When I went in to film at Readings I was  a little bit worried as Ia felt as though I wasn't prepared enough for it. What I found was that I had actually over planned and so my schedule was shortened down, because I was flying through every shot and really understood what I wanted to capture and didn't have to stop and deliberate on what I was going to do at just about any point. We ended up finishing at the scheduled time of 2am, but only because I decided to take my time. I had my favorite crew members aside from AEJUN SETHU of course, in Lana, Corey and Dan who were absolutely fantastic and did their job perfectly and my actress Katherine was a revelation as she fully engrossed herself into the role and really didn't shy away from any of the scenes involving her to be some what out of her comforts zone and hopefully she will she people coming to her for acting jobs in the enar future. I got to use the F3 (with expressed permission and supervision of Ash Bartlett) which was great as I found the range of lenses was key in allowing me to capture the close up shots and generally capture the best image possible. If I was able to redo the filming I would only change and maybe add a few more shots in the ending sequence as I scheduled alot of shots, but maybe not the right ones and only due to the fact that I had no real access to the cinema until the night of shooting. Again, my crew was fantastic and I wouldnt have been able to complete the project without them.